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Jack the Ripper: The Definitive History (edition 2002)

by Paul Begg

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'The clearest, most accurate, and most up-to-date account of the Ripper murders, by one of Britain's greatest and most respected experts on the ""autumn of terror"" in Victorian London.' William D. Rubenstein, Professor of Modern History, University of Wales, AberystwythEngland in the 1880s was a society in transition, shedding the skin of Victorianism and moving towards a more modern age. Promiscuity, moral decline, prostitution, unemployment, poverty, police inefficiency... all these things combined to create a feeling of uncertainty and fear.The East End of Lo… (more)

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Title:	Jack the Ripper: The Definitive History
Authors:	Paul Begg
Info:	Longman (2002), Hardcover, 224 pages
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Currently rereading this book. Every autumn I like to reread one or more of the Jack the Ripper books I own, mainly because I find the subject endlessly fascinating. This 'History' gives a great deal of social and political background to help understand how Jack the Ripper's crimes impacted Victorian London, and indeed, why we are still discussing the case today.

This book is useful and informative both to the newcomer and to seasoned Ripperologists. I can;t recommend it enough. (

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Mary Ann Nichols (Polly Nichols)

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London, England, UK

Whitechapel, London, England, UK

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Whitechapel Murders (1888 | 1891)

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'The clearest, most accurate, and most up-to-date account of the Ripper murders, by one of Britain's greatest and most respected experts on the ""autumn of terror"" in Victorian London.' William D. Rubenstein, Professor of Modern History, University of Wales, AberystwythEngland in the 1880s was a society in transition, shedding the skin of Victorianism and moving towards a more modern age. Promiscuity, moral decline, prostitution, unemployment, poverty, police inefficiency... all these things combined to create a feeling of uncertainty and fear.The East End of Lo

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